On the left is Слава Скребнева (Slava Skrebneva), my host-mom for three years while I was in Stakhanov, Ukraine. I'm in the middle and on the right is one of our good friends. We are standing in front of the Afghanistan War Memorial...
This young lady held our dog for a portrait in the garden outside my home in Ukraine. She was a good friend of my host-family. Every year the garden was full of flowers and vegetables.